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Roy Karch’s Last Production

December 7, 2019 Gram the Man 6

“Wow,” says Roy Karch, my old friend, as I lean over the railings of his bed to kiss him on the forehead. “Wow.” He reaches […]

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Love Army, San Francisco: Dr. Carol Queen and the Center for Sex & Culture

July 25, 2011 Gram the Man 1

Gram Ponante speaks with Dr. Carol Queen of San Francisco’s Center for Sex & Culture

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Hollie Stevens: Cancer, yoga “for pussies”

July 21, 2011 Gram the Man 4

“My friends say I should do yoga,” says Hollie Stevens. “But yoga is for pussies.”

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MontagFoto 4.25.11—Save Porn Star Karaoke Edition

April 25, 2011 Gram the Man 1

Porn Star Karaoke is an ancient and venerable tradition that must be preserved

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Hollie Stevens needs help bitchslapping cancer

April 15, 2011 Gram the Man 0

Hollie Stevens now has a website to help defray recovery expenses.

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Miami swings into action for Kimora Klein

April 15, 2011 Gram the Man 1

Friends of Kimora Klein have set up HelpKimora.com to assist the porn performer with medical bills incurred in a January car accident

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Being for the benefit of Nina Hartley or: Why it pays to throw good money after bad girls

February 21, 2011 Gram the Man 1

“These people are my family,” Hartley says. “And I really feel supported. I like seeing them without having to have a benefit, of course.”

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Fleshbot to drop loads of appreciation on male performers

December 8, 2010 Gram the Man 4

Fleshbot will be delivering cards to dozens of male performers who would otherwise only be receiving listless blowjobs from blackjack dealers at the Flamingo.

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Tee & A: The Skylar Neil Memorial Golf Tournament

May 11, 2010 Gram the Man 1

Girls, Girls, Girls…and golf. Two years after his young daughter, Skylar, died of leukemia, Motley Crue frontman Vince Neil began raising money for cancer research […]

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Saving the date for sex bloggers, 2011

March 18, 2010 Gram the Man 2

As you are doubtless aware, most of the residents of New York City are somehow involved with blogging about their deviant sexualities…

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Porn scenes from an Italian restaurant

December 13, 2009 Gram the Man 5

“Someday soon, you’re going to have families of your own. And if you’re lucky, you’ll remember the little moments, like this, that were good.”

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Jayden Jaymes Porno Party 12/10: As if the birth of Christ wasn’t awesome enough

December 10, 2009 Gram the Man 0

It sounds like a great night for a good cause. I’ll be there, too – it’s fun to talk about poverty in a room that smells like strippers’ melon body spray and vodka.

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Belladonna and Kimberly Kane throw a snow ball for AIM

December 1, 2009 Gram the Man 2

There are few people more exciting to think of having a date with than Belladonna and Kimberly Kane (well, I would have liked to go […]

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Nina Hartley’s heart-shaped ass as a fundamental human right

August 18, 2009 Gram the Man 2

Nina Hartley donated some ass-pinkening for the greater good last weekend at the Woodhull Sexual Freedom Foundation’s first Los Angeles fundraiser, which featured a great […]

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Free love Saturday night with Victoria Woodhull

August 12, 2009 Gram the Man 2

Nina Hartley, Carol Queen, and Lamalani, International Ms. Leather 2009, will grace a fundraiser Saturday night for the Woodhull Freedom Foundation, a non-profit organization that […]

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Calling all (gonzo) girls

November 1, 2008 Gram the Man 4

A film critical of the porn industry (and that’s O.K., remember – it’s not like it’s Birth of a Nation) will be shown tonight at […]

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Sexy as duck: New York sex writers announce monthly visitor

October 16, 2008 Gram the Man 4

I admit that I shouldn’t feel offended – but I am – to have not been asked to pose for the The New York City […]

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Vicky Vette: When boobs are not enough

August 29, 2008 Gram the Man 2

Erotic Scandinavian among erotic Scandinavians Vicky Vette, whose wholesome sauciness evokes the pornstars of the 90’s, is in a near dead heat with someone named […]

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Cancer benefit for Henri Pachard, veteran porn director

May 26, 2008 Gram the Man 0

Donations to Henri Pachard’s Cancer Fund are now being accepted. And, for the next 30 days, every adult store order of Not the Bradys XXX […]

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Surewood pleads not guilty as murder case continues

December 5, 2007 Gram the Man 0

Brian Barnes, aka the adult performer Brian Surewood, pleaded not guilty to second degree murder charges Monday in Los Angeles Superior Court, Van Nuys. His […]

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